Life — March 6, 1913 — page 59: what you’re looking at

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Davis Was Not Tough Jeff Davis of Arkansas, he who went to the Senate to show the dudes there what a real man was, is no more. Men like Jeff, and like Ben Till- man as he used to be, and perhaps like Cole Blease as he is, are not real- ly tough. Davis was the prize man- eater of the Southwest, and came to Washington to overwhelm all weak- lings in starched collars. Of course, once out of sight of the Ozarks, he never overwhelmed any- one. In the presence of abler and more civilized men he wilted, and even in the Senate he was Caliban at an evening party Even physically Davis did not last well. He didn’t know how to live and had wasted his vital energies in mere hysterical passion. The really tough men are very high- ly civilized products, trained in all the exercises, and inured to all the ordi- nary poisons of civilization Mr. Choate. for example, is really tough. So is Mr. Root. The late Mr. Evarts was wonderfully tough. New York, not Arkansas, is the habitat of the truly hardy, though they raise some human plants of very good endurance in Philadelphia. A.: I thought you were a vegetarian, and now I see you eating mutton! B.: Well, I am only an indirect veg- ctarian; I eat the meat of such animals only as live on vegetable food. —Tit-Bits. This Electric Roadster is Built for Live Ones THE bigger the man, the more important his business, the more valuable his time. This new Detroit Electric Roadster is in- stantly available day or night, winter or summer. It has a greater speed than any traffic ordinance allows, and ample mileage for constant all day use. You will find it a pleasure to drive this car in traffic—you can always make a quick “get-away” on any one of five speeds in- stantly without gear shifting. Did you ever figure how much it cost you to drive a large touring car around town? ctric current is now the cheapest form of motive energy. The Detroit Electric has all the advantages of electricity, not only two or three of them. Many large business houses are adopting ANDERSON ELECTRIC CAR COMPANY DETROIT, MICH., U. S. We have for Hire the Best Open and Closed Automobiles for British and Con- tinental Motoring at the most reasonable inclusive tariff in Europe. G American Visitors te © The fifth annual edi- ton of © Through fully describes our services. Mailed Cars hired from us, Free on request. The International Autotravel Society 56-60 Morning Post Buildi ‘The strand, London, Eng! Foreign Chefs Gustav Zorn, proprietor of the new million-dollar hotel in Bad Nauheim, who bas come here to study American hotels, discussed our cooking in New York “ American cooking,” he said, me very much. Your Southern dishes I particularly like. The French chef, whom we find in the large hotel all over the world, would do well to adopt some of your dishes. He would do well, for example, to substitute ‘chicken Mary- ” Detroit Electrics for strictly business pur- poses. The Detroit Electric is built in the largest and most modern plant in the world building electric automobiles exclusively. When you buy_a Detroit Electric you get the benefit of big production, big value, and big service. Mlustrated catalogue showing cight different models sent upon request. Detroit Electric 1913 Line Model 42—Ciear Vision Brougham 2t04 ‘icc eats face to face Modet sonisines Maa Model 40—Ladies Operi Vietoria 2 t0 4 pi The above prices are f.0.b. Detrolt land style’ for such a dish as poached ortolan brains.” Herr Zorn smiled. “Poached ortolan brains—no exagger- ation,” he said, “is the sort of dish a certain type of French chef loves to serve. Such a chef—the gourmet's chef —cooks fish that are not cleaned, and birds so rare that they seem not to be cooked at all. Indeed, these fellows have axiom that the way to cook a snipe ‘Let it ly once:through a hot kiteh- ‘New York Tribune. comicbooks.com